In such a country, at such a time, such a young director, who was only 28 years old at the time, made a film about the destruction of a little boy's childhood by war, and it is rare that it has received widespread attention in the West. Tarkovsky did not choose the theme of the current autocratic rule, nor did he choose the theme of Stalin's rule that was a little farther away from him, but chose the theme of the Soviet-German confrontation when the Soviet government and the people were the most glued together. Obviously, he started It was the Soviet government that wanted to please, and it was just an accident that it was recognized by the West.
Of course, in such an authoritarian country, it is understandable to choose such a theme if you want your movie to be successfully released. Therefore, let politics belong to politics, and let art belong to art. Artistically, the film isn't bad at all. This is a film that uses poetic narrative. It doesn't have a very engaging storyline, but it has a lot of beautiful, poetic footnotes. Among them, the scene about Ivan with his mother is relatively easy to understand, which is used to represent Ivan's beautiful childhood, which was finally shattered by the arrival of the Germans. The other two are not very easy to understand. One is about the date between the female medical officer and the colonel in the birch forest, and the other is about Ivan and a girl sitting on a train full of apples and chasing on the beach. Every scene is very beautiful, and then I don't know why I want to shoot such a scene.
The scene scheduling of the movie is not complicated. As a war movie, the characters can be said to be very few, mainly three or four people. It is a bit like a stage play, which may also be limited by funds. After all, this is the director's debut, and the director is only a 28-year-old young man, which is already very good.
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